strategy

As a player of multiple 4X/HGS (historical grand strategy games), I often find myself brainstorming/daydreaming about the features and/or mechanics I'd put into a game if I were in charge of developing one. I call it "Rise to Power." Some of it involves mixing and matching aspects of multiple...

Hello there, long time Civ 3 enjoyer. I've been playing this game since about 2002, and still do at times. I've also known this site for a very long time, but this is my first serious post I've ever made, and it will be a bold one. I'm interested most of all in game balancing, and I've been...

I'm not sure what, if anything changed, but shortly after winning enough games handily, I'm suddenly finding it much harder to find that same mojo. I've been playing Metropolis difficulty on a Huge map at Endless speed (because even that barely seems to leave me with a satisfactory span of time...

Hi all! it’s my day off in a very long time and I’m preparing for a very long civ session but I need your help. I can’t choose the civ I want to play with. Since I couldn’t choose, I thought: who better to ask then you? My question: what is your favorite strategy x Civ combination in civ 6...

Hi everyone! Tell me what are your favorite civs, victory types and settings. Not only the civilization that you choose, but also what victory are you going for, what map type, size, game speed and modes you select. Also tell me what's your favorite strategy (whether you go tall/wide, aggressive...

Hi! I never cared too much about land apeal, since I mostly play scientific/religious games, but now that they added preserves it is sooo much more valuable. Anyway, I wanted to ask you how to increase land appeal (I'm only aware of preserves themselves and Eiffel Tower). I play deity, and have...

I've been playing Civ IV on and off for a long time, and I've improved a lot from when I started. When I found the forums I ghosted them for a while and even dug through the War Academy articles. I watched videos from Lain and AbsoluteZero as well, and those seemed pretty helpful. I tried to...

This is a playthrough of the World Map1000AD (BtS) scenario. This was a request by insaneweasel1 in youtube comments (Lain's) a while ago so I decided to take up the challange. I do have a lot of experience with the map and won on deity with most leaders except Mansa and Huyana. This is my 3rd...

Red Death Strategy Guide [Edited with more info on the factional updates] I have not come upon a comprehensive Red Death strategy guide akin to those published for the standard Civilization game mode. There is a good reason for this – few people play Red Death. Even fewer play it often enough...

I have no time for standard or worse speeds. I've seen that standard games generally say at T100 that you should have at least 10 cities, a couple sea units, and 4 trade routes, but what should it be for us who don't have time or patience for standard games or slower? I've personally pushed it...

So, I don't know about you guys, but if you are anything like me, in spite of complaining about AI, UI and mechanics, you play civilization more than other games...perhaps by a large margin. Steam says I currently have about 2000 hours each in Civ 5 and Civ 6. This is not because there are no...

I can almost never seem to win wars against the AI, even though I play on low difficulty (Warlord). The same thing always happens every time I play; I have the misfortune to spawn next to an aggressive leader like Shaka or Ragnar, and never make it to the end of the game because I get tired of...

Every time I play this game, I wind up getting "boxed-in" by the AI by the end of the Classical Age. By this, I mean that I can't settle more cities because I've gotten completely surrounded by AI civs, so my only alternatives are to either attack them and take their cities, which is a problem...

Hi Civ fans, just made my first GS game. Matthias Corvinus is incredidle strong. With the help of Amani you can become suzerain of a city state very early. Levy units as soon as you have money for it. Afterward you get 2 more Envoys - so you can stay suzerain even after moving Amani to the next...

I'm trying to keep on a level with the AIs re espionage, but two major civs have their entire espionage output on me - 9000EP between them with me in Renaissance. I'm trying not to use the slider because I'd like to gain ground in tech or at least not lose any more. So I've got all but three of...

So I've read a lot of strategy guides about Culture Victory - some I agree with and some tips seem completely misplaced. Personally I don't support the following ideas: "Build tourism early since it starts accruing from the moment you meet a civ": complete rubbish because the later game...

New version 2.3 as of 7.05 - AI should be more aggressive, especially in later eras. A quick overview only. Go to the discussion thread for more details. Different approach to make AI better, a mixture of Lua "thinking" and tuning of AiLists. Before you start - Real Strategy (RST) works with...

I am checking some mechanisms available already in the game that would allow to implement more sophisticated strategies for the AI. Basically the idea is to be more mindful about the situation in the game especially what opponents are doing and better evaluate our chances. Based on that the AI...

Hey there guys so I have just recently started playing this mod (latest beta version) experimenting in a few games on standard speed, Communitas map with different policies and leaders I am enjoying it however the difficulty spike from immortal to deity is crazy.. I am coming from vanilla...

It seems that this forum (and the Civ playerbase as a whole, maybe), are devoid of discussion about strategic Culture Victory discussion in Civ VI. There was a decent thread about quick SV here: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/how-to-quick-sv-share-your-view.628174/ . It's...